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scsi(4)

NAME

     SCSI, CAM -- CAM SCSI subsystem

SYNOPSIS

     device scbus
     device cd
     device ch
     device da
     device pass
     device pt
     device sa
     options CAMDEBUG
     options CAM_DEBUG_BUS=-1
     options CAM_DEBUG_TARGET=-1
     options CAM_DEBUG_LUN=-1
     options CAM_DEBUG_FLAGS=CAM_DEBUG_INFO|CAM_DEBUG_CDB
     options CAM_MAX_HIGHPOWER=4
     options SCSI_NO_SENSE_STRINGS
     options SCSI_NO_OP_STRINGS
     options SCSI_DELAY=8000

DESCRIPTION

     The CAM SCSI subsystem provides a uniform and modular system for the
     implementation of drivers to control various SCSI devices, and to utilize
     different SCSI host adapters through host adapter drivers.  When the sys-
     tem probes the SCSI busses, it attaches any devices it finds to the
     appropriate drivers.  The pass(4) driver, if it is configured in the ker-
     nel, will attach to all SCSI devices.

KERNEL CONFIGURATION

     There are a number of generic kernel configuration options for the CAM
     SCSI subsystem:

     CAMDEBUG		    This option enables the CAM debugging printf code.
			    This won't actually cause any debugging informa-
			    tion to be printed out when included by itself.
			    Enabling printouts requires additional configura-
			    tion.  See below for details.

     CAM_MAX_HIGHPOWER=4    This sets the maximum allowable number of concur-
			    rent "high power" commands.  A "high power" com-
			    mand is a command that takes more electrical power
			    than most to complete.  An example of this (and
			    the only command currently tagged as "high power")
			    is the SCSI START UNIT command.  Starting a SCSI
			    disk often takes significantly more electrical
			    power than normal operation of the disk.  This
			    option allows the user to specify how many concur-
			    rent high power commands may be outstanding with-
			    out overloading the power supply on his computer.

     SCSI_NO_SENSE_STRINGS  This eliminates text descriptions of each SCSI
			    Additional Sense Code and Additional Sense Code
			    Qualifier pair.  Since this is a fairly large text
			    database, eliminating it reduces the size of the
			    kernel somewhat.  This is primarily necessary for
			    boot floppies and other low disk space or low mem-
			    above, is primarily useful for environments like a
			    boot floppy where kernel size is critical.
			    Enabling this option for normal use isn't recom-
			    mended, since it slows debugging of SCSI problems.

     SCSI_DELAY=8000	    This is the SCSI "bus settle delay."  In CAM, it
			    is specified in milliseconds, not seconds like the
			    old SCSI layer used to do.	When the kernel boots,
			    it sends a bus reset to each SCSI bus to tell each
			    device to reset itself to a default set of trans-
			    fer negotiations and other settings.  Most SCSI
			    devices need some amount of time to recover from a
			    bus reset.	Newer disks may need as little as
			    100ms, while old, slow devices may need much
			    longer.  If the SCSI_DELAY isn't specified, it
			    defaults to 2 seconds.  The minimum allowable
			    value for SCSI_DELAY is "100", or 100ms.  One spe-
			    cial case is that if the SCSI_DELAY is set to 0,
			    that will be taken to mean the "lowest possible
			    value."  In that case, the SCSI_DELAY will be
			    reset to 100ms.

     All devices and the SCSI busses support boot time allocation so that an
     upper number of devices and controllers does not need to be configured;
     device da0 will suffice for any number of disk drivers.

     The devices are either wired so they appear as a particular device unit
     or counted so that they appear as the next available unused unit.

     Units are wired down by setting kernel environment hints.	This is usu-
     ally done either interactively from the loader(8), or automatically via
     the /boot/device.hints file.  The basic syntax is:

	   hint.device.unit.property="value"

     Individual SCSI bus numbers can be wired down to specific controllers
     with a config line similar to the following:

	   hint.scbus.0.at="ahd1"

     This assigns SCSI bus number 0 to the ahd1 driver instance.  For con-
     trollers supporting more than one bus, a particular bus can be assigned
     as follows:

	   hint.scbus.0.at="ahc1"
	   hint.scbus.0.bus="1"

     This assigns SCSI bus 0 to the bus 1 instance on ahc0.  Peripheral driv-
     ers can be wired to a specific bus, target, and lun as so:

	   hint.da.0.at="scbus0"
	   hint.da.0.target="0"
	   hint.da.0.unit="0"

     This assigns da0 to target 0, unit (lun) 0 of scbus 0.  Omitting the tar-
     get or unit hints will instruct CAM to treat them as wildcards and use
     the first respective counted instances.  These examples can be combined
     together to allow a peripheral device to be wired to any particular con-
     The system allows common device drivers to work through many different
     types of adapters.  The adapters take requests from the upper layers and
     do all IO between the SCSI bus and the system.  The maximum size of a
     transfer is governed by the adapter.  Most adapters can transfer 64KB in
     a single operation, however many can transfer larger amounts.

TARGET MODE

     Some adapters support target mode in which the system is capable of oper-
     ating as a device, responding to operations initiated by another system.
     Target mode is supported for some adapters, but is not yet complete for
     this version of the CAM SCSI subsystem.

FILES

     see other SCSI device entries.

DIAGNOSTICS

     When the kernel is compiled with options CAMDEBUG, an XPT_DEBUG CCB can
     be used to enable various amounts of tracing information on any specific
     device.  Devices not being traced will not produce trace information.
     There are currently four debugging flags that may be turned on:

     CAM_DEBUG_INFO	 This debugging flag enables general informational
			 printfs for the device or devices in question.

     CAM_DEBUG_TRACE	 This debugging flag enables function-level command
			 flow tracing.	i.e. kernel printfs will happen at the
			 entrance and exit of various functions.

     CAM_DEBUG_SUBTRACE  This debugging flag enables debugging output internal
			 to various functions.

     CAM_DEBUG_CDB	 This debugging flag will cause the kernel to print
			 out all SCSI commands sent to a particular device or
			 devices.

     Some of these flags, most notably CAM_DEBUG_TRACE and CAM_DEBUG_SUBTRACE
     will produce kernel printfs in EXTREME numbers, and because of that, they
     aren't especially useful.	There aren't many things logged at the
     CAM_DEBUG_INFO level, so it isn't especially useful.  The most useful
     debugging flag is the CAM_DEBUG_CDB flag.	Users can enable debugging
     from their kernel config file, by using the following kernel config
     options:

     CAMDEBUG	       This enables CAM debugging.  Without this option, users
		       will not even be able to turn on debugging from user-
		       land via camcontrol(8).

     CAM_DEBUG_FLAGS   This allows the user to set the various debugging flags
		       described above in a kernel config file.  Flags may be
		       ORed together if the user wishes to see printfs for
		       multiple debugging levels.

     CAM_DEBUG_BUS     Specify a bus to debug.	To debug all busses, set this
		       to -1.

     CAM_DEBUG_TARGET  Specify a target to debug.  To debug all targets, set
		       this to -1.

     option is their config file, by using the camcontrol(8) utility.  See
     camcontrol(8) for details.

SEE ALSO

     aha(4), ahb(4), ahc(4), bt(4), cd(4), ch(4), da(4), pass(4), pt(4),
     sa(4), xpt(4), camcontrol(8)

HISTORY

     The CAM SCSI subsystem first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.

AUTHORS

     The CAM SCSI subsystem was written by Justin Gibbs and Kenneth Merry.

FreeBSD 5.4		       October 15, 1998 		   FreeBSD 5.4

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